Long time no blog....

Hi all....
I've been out of blogging ring for quite some time,mainly because of my internals( thats another sad story though)..
And lot of stories in between too...
I'll post them in the mean time..now me gtg...bye
huh...such a miniscule post.....tis ok ma...
bye

Mother's love

HI all
I am having a doubt whether i am doing my Engg..or some theology course...Today during Industrial Management class,,,we were asked what is a "long time permanent bond"...I almost answered "Mother's love"....
The answer was "Equity shares".
was just wondering why am i thinking a bit off the lines...
signing off...Bye

Blogging is actually seen seriously....and kudos raghu

HI all
Today while i was browsing the newspaper , i came across an article on how blogging has lead to something called citizen reporters or better, citizen journalism...it was pretty interesting. Also looks like bloggers came in handy during the tsunami giving out first handinformations....
A copy-paste from The Hindu:

MEDIA MATTERS

The tsunami blog

SEVANTI NINAN
WHEN you learn that a disaster has struck, waiting for the next day's newspaper has become a distant third in your list of options. The first move now would be to tap a TV news channel, the second would be to get on to the Internet. On the Net there are now two generic options. You could tap a news site such as the BBC or a blog for a less impersonal response. Bloggers take their role as citizen media very seriously. Within a couple of hours of the tsunami striking, you had "how to help" links going up on all kinds of blogs, with frequent updates being posted. (Technology sharpens a citizen's ability to respond — SMSes also started going out giving addresses in the neighbourhood where you could contribute relief materials.)

Blogs are now syndicated


The year gone by saw further evolution of the concept of grassroots media such as weblogs. You take a medium used by the cyber-garrulous to enshrine personal angst and turn it into something socially useful. Blogs are now syndicated, and the widely accessed ones are patronised by advertisers. August 2004 saw the publication of a book that said it was describing the future of journalism, or tomorrow's journalism. Titled We the Media it described a relatively new phenomenon in several ways. As the emergence of non-standard news sources, as the growth of grassroots journalists, as journalism that is even more instant than a TV news channel. As the first draft of history being written by a former audience.

9/11 the turning point


Dan Gillmor, the author, is a technology writer who has a blog called Siliconvalley.com. He has followed the evolution of blogging and mailing lists and looks at September 11 as the event which marked the arrival of personal journalism, of people who would be traditionally described as readers/viewers/listeners getting on to the Internet to report on what was happening at that point in New York City to families and survivors.

Gillmor says his book is about journalism's transformation from a 20th Century mass-media structure to something profoundly more grassroots and democratic. "It's a story, first, of evolutionary change." What is making the change possible is technology which allows anyone to become a journalist at little cost and, in theory, with global reach. It's there on the Net, you go to a blogging site and learn how to set up your own weblog, which is a personal diary. You also learn how to post on it. And then, if you have the imagination and gumption, you can stop just being at the receiving end of news. The phrase Gillmor loves to use is turning journalism from being a lecture into a conversation. By doing so, grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, and taking us to a theatre of action where there is no media. The Baghdad Blogger, and all those families in Kosovo who sent out e-mails during that covered-from-outside war demonstrated how valuable such a source can be.

My cousin Raghu has come with a cool project using cell phones and long range controlling..
Just check out this link Daily thanthi

New Year’s Eve

Here is the last day of this eventful year, 2004.It was eventful for me personally and otherwise too, some good and some not so good.
Anyway the wheel of time is rotating, as always and we go up and down with it…
That’s for the philosophical part of it…
I was thinking about New Year resolution and stuff. I never ever believed in it. If you are going to take a resolution why do you need to wait till an occasion? It needs to be taken then and there when you feel you are for it. I’ve also heard New Year resolutions don’t last long. It cant. It is a simple psychology. I don’t want to elucidate on that.
We got a subject called DSP, handled by Mr.Sudhakar. He says DSP is an acronym for “Degree Stopping Paper” in other colleges, whereas in our college it is “Doing Something Phenomenal”. No comments.
KD almost confirmed that we were going to have a New Year party in her new unoccupied house, but her GRE prep has come in between, so some other time…. She decided and got our appointments on 1st of January, 2004.
Today we had a series of speeches in the Prof Com hour. Guys are so chauvinistic. That is sick. But there is a golden rule they are forgetting. That’ll be the thought for the day today…
So happy New Year folks…
Thought for the day:

A place, where women are not honoured, will never see prosperity

In fact this quote is substantiated by the Tamil epic, Silapathikaram which says one of the three truths for a life is “Uyarndhor pathiniyai yethuvar”.